Antiskid-chain tightener



I". RIGHTIVIIR-E.

ANIsKm CHAIN TIGHTENEH.

APPLICATION FILED AUG.4| 1920.

Patented J an. 31, 1922.

WITNESS:

A TTUAH/VEY :FRANKLIMGHTMIREJ BATERSQN, Niwgensnsnl To LZZcQ'Lom/tmay domani.. Be it known that I, FRANKLINQRIGHTMIRE,

a citizen of the United States, residing atY Paterson,` in the county of' 'Passaic :and Statey of New Jersey, have vinvented certain new and useful Improvements inAntiskid-Chaiu Tighteners, of which the 4followingr isfn specication.

-Theobject of tion, llight in weight, easily :appli'ed'and removed, l and adapted lto .be packed in'fcom-'` parativelysmall compass when' not'in use. .i

Thefinvention consists ina tightenenlot the class indicated including an elastic la`p.

proximately straight I flexible member. 'having an attaching point at each end-portion and also at the intermediate portion thereof and adapted to be connected at each 4of said attaching points with an anti-skid chain in'v preferred form of the invention includinganother such member.

In the drawing,

Figure l is a side elevation eta wheel' my device having an anti-skid chain and holding the chain tight;

Figure 2 shows the two parts of the device as shown in Figure 1 removed and discon-` nected and in their relaxed or straight form and A Figures 3 and 4 illustrate modications of the device. y

In Figures 1 and 2, a @indicates a pairot elastic straightiexible members inthe form of steel blades or strips, each having its ends rebentto form hooksb, the hooksprojecting both in the same direction Vfrom the blade.

Secured by rivets c or otherwise' to and face to face with each member aV is an elasticV straight flexible member d alsol in the formV of a steel blade or strip, the same having one end formed with a hook` e and the Vother end with a longitudinal series of holes f.- The anti-skid chain g being in place on the. tireA 7i the hooks b' of the members a, a are en-y gaged with links of said chains and the hook e ot each member d is engaged in one of the Specific'atien of Letters lfateiit.;

thisinvention is to provideV aftightening device for'antirskid chains yfor 1. vehicles, (such. as. the so-called Weed chainf which shall be simple andl inexpensiveyiu'` construction, `efficient' and-reliable "in .opera- ANTfsien-rdaim sistem'et.`

hens. f if th Complementary member, the 'K i arefbowedand put under tension, thus draw- :i 4 ing the chaintight` It will beun'derstood that adjustment may'} be ,efetedby engaginaugure a thefmembers a a' are' sussentiallythe same as the menibersr a a-,butftheiifk attachingfpoints at the intermediate portions in the samedirectionfrom the blad`e,yin4 eaclf' i instance, jas the "hooks-J0 k at the jendslj) The@ .are flexiblemense@'connections-*bere7Q, A

tweenqthe: members Vz' infthis instance,v .the-. same in the illustrated example consisting of? free endtohengage in :anyiink ofthejchamd'g (for the purpose of adjustmenty In Figurefithe members p p are again i substantially 4the same as'the membersafa.j v The connections betweenV the membersfp p. *j p are in this case rigid and rigidly.attache@k f vto them,l the connections being inthe-form- 1 .of stit Abladesg-g having'the yends bent f .85

'and secured by rivets s to the intermediate portion of each member pp.

(Zd. The combi-nation denedin said stafte-VA l v. ment of inventionis'aiordefd in Figures ly and2 by either member ar, d as the member and the elements Z cl das the means,,or

Yby either element d d as the memberand It will be understoodthatin the'device as f'. .t Y shownin Figure Sthe hoo-ks 7c, andin the device as shown inFigure-i the hooks t, are adapted to be engaged :with the links of the 1 antiskid chain, thegsaine as illustrated in Figure 1,'so that themembers and .pp i 'fare put under tension, thus'` drawing the f vchaintight. f Y. It will be understoodthat such-a member as the statement of inventi'onembodied the Vopening part of this rspecification defines `is afforded in Figures land 2 by .either elef E les? the'element a which is'faixed theretotas the f f means such elementY d inrrthis :instance: being attached at its yend attaching. points not directly, but indirectlyV (through the other'member's d a), to the chain;l saidcom- Vbination is afforded Figure/3 (one) either element z' z' (or p as the member A and the elements m 'a' (or g p) as the meane Having thns fully. described my inven-V tion, what I claim as new and desire t0 secure by Letters- Patent is l. AA tightenel for anti-skid tire chainsv including an elastic'approximatelyfstraight flexible member having an attachingV point VVat each end-portion and'also at the interlo mediate 'portion thereof and adapted to'be conn-ectedjat each. 'of vsaid attaching points with a chain in place on a-tireY and thereby held -leXed and under. tension.

.fcliidiing5 in combination,fwith an elastic approximately straight flexible member having: attaching pointe at both -end-port1ons Y and also at the intermediate portionthereof,

` means7 attached to f saidl internndiatev point,

Vto.conme0tthe same with theY chain, said member when 2the-attaching points. 'atits said end portionsand saidfmeans are coni nectedto'a chainin-:placeronV a tire vbeing adapted sito` be thereby held Aflexed* and under tension;- K yA' tightenergrfor v anti-skid chains in?? acluding,I Vingcombination, with a' kpair of;

Y g YYelastic approximately,straightllexible mem-.-V

berel each having attaching pointsgat both; en`d-portions thereocrneans;I tofconnect the portions.

intermediate portion ofr each member with the other, said members when the attaching points' at` their said"l end-portions are all .Y

connected to a chain in place on a tire being adapted to be thereby held flexed and underA tension.

4. A tightenerA for anti-skiditirechains c' l including an elastic Yapproximately straight flexible` member having Van attaching point at each end-portion and also atvthe 'f intermediate portion thereoffand adaptedrto'jbe connected at each of said` attaching points with. a-chainin place onv a, tire...and;thereby Y held flexed and under tensiomthe extremi` ties of said member being rebent anddj'orml points at its, said end'-` ing the attaching.

v 5. A tightenerfor anti-*skid chainsinclud# With a, chain in placeo'nla tire/and thereby held lflexed and under tension` Y Y Y In testimony whereof II afixiny signatilre.

1 FRANKLrn'indirrixiiRe.V Y 

